Whilst commonly used air displacement pipettes are highly accurate for most pipetting applications, their performance is adversely affected by the physical properties of the solutions handled, such as viscosity, volatility, surface tension and temperature. However, positive displacement pipettes like Gilson's ergonomic MICROMAN® E and Capillary Pistons (CPs) work differently, and volume delivery is unaffected by the nature of the sample...
Bruker Corporation has announced that it has received orders for two 1.1 GHz NMR Avance Neo systems from U.S. academic institutions funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF awarded the funds to establish the Network for Advanced NMR (NAN) linking three institutions including the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, the University of Georgia and University of Wisconsin–Madison...
The eleventh ZEISS Women Award was awarded in Dresden. This prize honors outstanding female informatics students who are about to graduate. The award was offered throughout Germany and serves as a platform to publicly recognize successful young women in the digital sector and to encourage more women to consider a career in the field....
A UK-based aquaculture business aims to remove billions of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere each year by growing and harvesting floating seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean. Seafields is developing and testing new technologies focused on growing and capturing Sargassum, a seaweed that has escaped its normal environment in the Sargasso Sea and has exploded in growth in the last two decades...
Nerbe plus Premium Surface low retention pipette tips are now available in the UK exclusively from Alpha Laboratories Ltd. These top-quality tips are optimised for the highest precision and reproducibility in a pipetting cycle. The ultra-smooth hydrophobic surfaces prevent loss of material through adsorption and reduces DNA denaturation. These qualities improve efficiencies of test sequences by cutting down on costs associated with expensive reagents....
Blood alcohol analysis is one of a variety of headspace methods performed in forensic toxicology laboratories. The Versa was evaluated to determine its suitability to perform an occasional blood alcohol test. Methanol, acetone, ethanol, isopropanol and acetaldehyde along with n-propanol, a typical internal standard, were tested with the Versa headspace instrument....
The UK’s biggest trade show for the lab industry is back. On November 3 and 4, 2021, Lab Innovations, the UK’s largest trade exhibition for the laboratory industry, returns to the NEC in Birmingham. Leading scientists, professionals, researchers and more will come together for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic following a period of huge scientific breakthroughs....
Centrifugal Partition Chromatography (CPC) or Counter Current Chromatography (CCC), as it is sometimes known, is a cost-effective solution for natural product purification using liquid-liquid phases rather than a solid stationary phase. With no column to replace or silica to recycle, CPC offers low solvent consumption compared with traditional chromatography techniques and requires no extensive pre-treatment of samples....
BioChromato reports that it has installed more than 10 Smart Evaporator systems across the Russian Hygiene and Epidemiology Centers (HEC) network of institutes as part of a national program of acquiring leading edge analytical and sample preparation equipment. This major investment by the Hygiene and Epidemiology Centers was to enable them to improve the well-being of the population by monitoring...
Vision Engineering Limited (Woking, UK) welcomed HRH, The Princess Royal to its Global HQ & Manufacturing facility in Send, Surrey, to present them with The Queen’s Award for Enterprise for its Lynx EVO ergonomic stereo microscope, used for quality control in many manufacturing sites around the world. On arrival at the modern manufacturing site, The Princess Royal was met by Mr Michael Hayman, a Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey, who presented Mark Curtis, Managing Director of Vision Engineering....
After a successful first summit in April 2021 that concentrated on moving forward in a post-pandemic world, the second Olympus Discovery Summit will focus on how microscopy imaging can advance research. Presentation topics include the use of complementary imaging technologies to understand the immune system, deconvolution techniques to improve image quality, 3D imaging, how AI is helping researchers analyze large amounts of microscopy image data and more...
SPT Labtech, a global leader in the design and development of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, has unveiled new branding that brings together its technologies with those from recent acquisitions into a single entity. The merged portfolio and positioning reflect SPT Labtech's commitment to harnessing the ingenuity and product development track record of its extended business to help scientists do better research...
NanoImaging Services, Inc., the premier industry provider of cryoEM services, microscope access and training, and Viva Biotech Holdings, a leading open-access and innovation-driven technology platform company, have announced a partnership agreement to develop a streamlined, cryoEM enabled gene-to-structure workflow, to ultimately accelerate medicinal chemistry analysis....
VectorBuilder Inc., a global leader in vector design, optimization and GMP manufacturing, and Landau Biotechnology Co., a world leader in developing nonhuman primate (NHP) models for clinical research applications, have signed a strategic partnership that will establish the world’s first primate gene therapy R&D center. The center will build advanced vector screening and optimization platforms to provide unique CRO services to the rapidly growing gene and cell therapy industry....
SCION Instruments has recently published its latest Application Note “Analysis of Fusel Alcohols Using HT3 Headspace Sampling”. Fusel alcohols are a common by-product of the fermentation process, but abnormal quantities or types can indicate alcoholic beverage adulteration. Method SSD: TM:200 is a direct injection method for testing these alcohols. The method states that Non-Beverage Alcohol (NBA) products, not miscible with water, cannot be analyzed by this method....
Brooks Automation, Inc. and Cleveland Clinic have opened a new 22,000-square-foot biospecimen sample management and repository facility on Cleveland Clinic’s main campus. The two-story biorepository is managed by Azenta Life Sciences, Brooks' recently re-branded life sciences division, and includes ultra-cold and cryogenic storage for researchers at Cleveland Clinic and other institutions....
Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal has officially opened the Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery and toured the centre to learn more about its work to overcome cancer’s ability to evolve and become resistant to treatment. Scientists at the pioneering centre, which is on the Sutton site of The Institute of Cancer Research, London, aim to discover new types of treatment that could allow cancer to be controlled in the long term, and ultimately cured...
UK-based HydRegen are using a DrySyn OCTO reaction station from Asynt to help develop a next generation biocatalyst system that enables cleaner, safer, and more efficient chemical manufacture. HydRegen spun-out from the Vincent Group in the Dept. of Chemistry at the University of Oxford in March 2021. They are developing novel and sustainable strategies for using the growing toolbox of NADH-dependent redox biocatalysts in chemical synthesis...
Scientists have developed a new machine learning method that can accurately predict which animal virusescould go on to infect humans in the future, using only information encoded in the viral genome. Most emerging infectious diseases of humans are caused by ‘zoonotic’ viruses that originate from other animal species. However, of the many millions of viruses that circulate in animals, only a few are likely able to infect humans....
Welsh Minister for Economy, Vaughan Gething MS, officially opened Markes International’s new headquarters in Bridgend on Thursday 23 September. The specialist analytical instrumentation manufacturer had moved its entire Welsh operations in March this year, relocating from Llantrisant to a newly refurbished site in Bridgend which is twice as large as its former premises....
TESTA Analytical Solutions e.K. announce that their HK Series Differential Refractive Index (DRI) detector is being used to provide accurate and reliable measurement of the absolute concentration and total mass of protein in a sample. Quantifying the amount of protein is highly desirable before processing protein samples for isolation, separation and analysis using chromatographic techniques...
UPM Biomedicals is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc., for the life sciences leader to act as a distributor of the GrowDex® and GrowDase™ range of products. This new collaboration will offer researchers a complete solution for high throughput screening (HTS) of 3D cell cultures in early drug discovery, bringing together PerkinElmer’s cell imaging and automation solutions and knowledge, and UPM’s animal-free 3D reagent offerings and expertise...
Whilst commonly used air displacement pipettes are highly accurate for most pipetting applications, their performance is adversely affected by the physical properties of the solutions handled, such as viscosity, volatility, surface tension and temperature. However, positive displacement pipettes like Gilson's ergonomic MICROMAN® E and Capillary Pistons (CPs) work differently, and volume delivery is unaffected by the nature of the sample...
Bruker Corporation has announced that it has received orders for two 1.1 GHz NMR Avance Neo systems from U.S. academic institutions funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF awarded the funds to establish the Network for Advanced NMR (NAN) linking three institutions including the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, the University of Georgia and University of Wisconsin–Madison...
The eleventh ZEISS Women Award was awarded in Dresden. This prize honors outstanding female informatics students who are about to graduate. The award was offered throughout Germany and serves as a platform to publicly recognize successful young women in the digital sector and to encourage more women to consider a career in the field....
A UK-based aquaculture business aims to remove billions of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere each year by growing and harvesting floating seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean. Seafields is developing and testing new technologies focused on growing and capturing Sargassum, a seaweed that has escaped its normal environment in the Sargasso Sea and has exploded in growth in the last two decades...
Nerbe plus Premium Surface low retention pipette tips are now available in the UK exclusively from Alpha Laboratories Ltd. These top-quality tips are optimised for the highest precision and reproducibility in a pipetting cycle. The ultra-smooth hydrophobic surfaces prevent loss of material through adsorption and reduces DNA denaturation. These qualities improve efficiencies of test sequences by cutting down on costs associated with expensive reagents....
Blood alcohol analysis is one of a variety of headspace methods performed in forensic toxicology laboratories. The Versa was evaluated to determine its suitability to perform an occasional blood alcohol test. Methanol, acetone, ethanol, isopropanol and acetaldehyde along with n-propanol, a typical internal standard, were tested with the Versa headspace instrument....
The UK’s biggest trade show for the lab industry is back. On November 3 and 4, 2021, Lab Innovations, the UK’s largest trade exhibition for the laboratory industry, returns to the NEC in Birmingham. Leading scientists, professionals, researchers and more will come together for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic following a period of huge scientific breakthroughs....
Centrifugal Partition Chromatography (CPC) or Counter Current Chromatography (CCC), as it is sometimes known, is a cost-effective solution for natural product purification using liquid-liquid phases rather than a solid stationary phase. With no column to replace or silica to recycle, CPC offers low solvent consumption compared with traditional chromatography techniques and requires no extensive pre-treatment of samples....
BioChromato reports that it has installed more than 10 Smart Evaporator systems across the Russian Hygiene and Epidemiology Centers (HEC) network of institutes as part of a national program of acquiring leading edge analytical and sample preparation equipment. This major investment by the Hygiene and Epidemiology Centers was to enable them to improve the well-being of the population by monitoring...
Vision Engineering Limited (Woking, UK) welcomed HRH, The Princess Royal to its Global HQ & Manufacturing facility in Send, Surrey, to present them with The Queen’s Award for Enterprise for its Lynx EVO ergonomic stereo microscope, used for quality control in many manufacturing sites around the world. On arrival at the modern manufacturing site, The Princess Royal was met by Mr Michael Hayman, a Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey, who presented Mark Curtis, Managing Director of Vision Engineering....
After a successful first summit in April 2021 that concentrated on moving forward in a post-pandemic world, the second Olympus Discovery Summit will focus on how microscopy imaging can advance research. Presentation topics include the use of complementary imaging technologies to understand the immune system, deconvolution techniques to improve image quality, 3D imaging, how AI is helping researchers analyze large amounts of microscopy image data and more...
SPT Labtech, a global leader in the design and development of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, has unveiled new branding that brings together its technologies with those from recent acquisitions into a single entity. The merged portfolio and positioning reflect SPT Labtech's commitment to harnessing the ingenuity and product development track record of its extended business to help scientists do better research...
NanoImaging Services, Inc., the premier industry provider of cryoEM services, microscope access and training, and Viva Biotech Holdings, a leading open-access and innovation-driven technology platform company, have announced a partnership agreement to develop a streamlined, cryoEM enabled gene-to-structure workflow, to ultimately accelerate medicinal chemistry analysis....
VectorBuilder Inc., a global leader in vector design, optimization and GMP manufacturing, and Landau Biotechnology Co., a world leader in developing nonhuman primate (NHP) models for clinical research applications, have signed a strategic partnership that will establish the world’s first primate gene therapy R&D center. The center will build advanced vector screening and optimization platforms to provide unique CRO services to the rapidly growing gene and cell therapy industry....
SCION Instruments has recently published its latest Application Note “Analysis of Fusel Alcohols Using HT3 Headspace Sampling”. Fusel alcohols are a common by-product of the fermentation process, but abnormal quantities or types can indicate alcoholic beverage adulteration. Method SSD: TM:200 is a direct injection method for testing these alcohols. The method states that Non-Beverage Alcohol (NBA) products, not miscible with water, cannot be analyzed by this method....
Brooks Automation, Inc. and Cleveland Clinic have opened a new 22,000-square-foot biospecimen sample management and repository facility on Cleveland Clinic’s main campus. The two-story biorepository is managed by Azenta Life Sciences, Brooks' recently re-branded life sciences division, and includes ultra-cold and cryogenic storage for researchers at Cleveland Clinic and other institutions....
Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal has officially opened the Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery and toured the centre to learn more about its work to overcome cancer’s ability to evolve and become resistant to treatment. Scientists at the pioneering centre, which is on the Sutton site of The Institute of Cancer Research, London, aim to discover new types of treatment that could allow cancer to be controlled in the long term, and ultimately cured...
UK-based HydRegen are using a DrySyn OCTO reaction station from Asynt to help develop a next generation biocatalyst system that enables cleaner, safer, and more efficient chemical manufacture. HydRegen spun-out from the Vincent Group in the Dept. of Chemistry at the University of Oxford in March 2021. They are developing novel and sustainable strategies for using the growing toolbox of NADH-dependent redox biocatalysts in chemical synthesis...
Scientists have developed a new machine learning method that can accurately predict which animal virusescould go on to infect humans in the future, using only information encoded in the viral genome. Most emerging infectious diseases of humans are caused by ‘zoonotic’ viruses that originate from other animal species. However, of the many millions of viruses that circulate in animals, only a few are likely able to infect humans....
Welsh Minister for Economy, Vaughan Gething MS, officially opened Markes International’s new headquarters in Bridgend on Thursday 23 September. The specialist analytical instrumentation manufacturer had moved its entire Welsh operations in March this year, relocating from Llantrisant to a newly refurbished site in Bridgend which is twice as large as its former premises....
TESTA Analytical Solutions e.K. announce that their HK Series Differential Refractive Index (DRI) detector is being used to provide accurate and reliable measurement of the absolute concentration and total mass of protein in a sample. Quantifying the amount of protein is highly desirable before processing protein samples for isolation, separation and analysis using chromatographic techniques...
UPM Biomedicals is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc., for the life sciences leader to act as a distributor of the GrowDex® and GrowDase™ range of products. This new collaboration will offer researchers a complete solution for high throughput screening (HTS) of 3D cell cultures in early drug discovery, bringing together PerkinElmer’s cell imaging and automation solutions and knowledge, and UPM’s animal-free 3D reagent offerings and expertise...